I work for Siemens PLM, makers of NX and Solid Edge software. Though I usually never post much about work, I thought this information may help others in the graphics / motion graphics realm, especially those who do adverts for Car companies and the like. NX can really...

So I’m still new to the whole OpenEXR format, but I like the whole concept of “All the layers in one file”. That being said, here is another struggle I found working with 32-bit OpenEXR render from Cinema 4D and imported into After Effects CS6. #1...

Here is a handy script I wrote to take care of changing the time span of frames of items in the render queue. You can select either all render queue items or ones queued and ready to go. You can change your items to all use Entire Composition, Workspace area or your...

At the end of every animation project, I always need to fill it with some much needed Sound FX and music to breath some life into the project. However, being new to audition I have become painfully aware that Audition will stutter with certain compressed quick times....

Perhaps you were trying to install After Effects CS5.5 or some other CS5.5 component on a Mac Mini Server a came up with the a screen full of gibberish that does you no good. Hopefully these 3 things will get you going: 1. Install latest Java OS X Lion Update 2....

With the recent release of Cinema 4D R13, there was one feature that I highly anticipated. That was the ability to write multiple channels into a single EXR frame. Why so important? Well, when you work with 4000+ frames for a sequence and use about 10 passes, that...

One thing most Objective-C programmers know, like C, you can declare variables of the same type the long way, such as: NSString *street1; NSString *street2; NSString *city; NSString *state; or the preferred short way of: NSString *street1, *street2, *city, *state;...

Andrew Kramer over at videocopilot.net, one of the coolest sites for After Effects tutorials, has a free plugin called Sure Target. In a word, it is awesomeness. It lets you easily shift from 3D element to 3D element with nothing more than setting a few parameters and...

I was downloading the developer preview of Lion and accidentally connected to my works VPN during the download. That was a major ooops. Afterwards, the Mac App store would only show “An error occurred” with no retry of downloading the file no matter how many times I...

Rushing through to figure out how to install the iAd Tester app on your iOS device and test with your local development machine? Me too. Here’s hoping the google gods pointed you in the right direction. First, a couple of assumptions: A. You’ve installed Xcode and...